What.cd is spying on Filesharingtalk

[Hombre]

This is one of the latest tricks. Basically what they do is set up a page which can’t be viewed by browser which is full of links the css checks to see if those links have been visited before if so it uses the content css tag to log your ip and which page you’ve viewed. Example of urls checked:

filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-have-and-need-404169
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-have-scc-whatcd-and-hdcorea-406264
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-have-whatcd-invite-404989
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-i-have-397931
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-need-whatcd-409732
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-need-whatcd-invite-404800
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-trades-158/t-whatcd-409821
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=3265225
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=3422154
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=158
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2452085
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2452962
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2454090
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456112
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456287
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456441
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456682
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456686
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456986
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2456988
filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2461556


filesharingtalk.com/vb3/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=2461897

See the PM ids ? Admins here can easily trace who are their hunters, as they are checking who read the messages they sent.

Can sites do this to your privacy and still you support them? this is madness nad the defeat of all ur privacy.

[anon]

Old news.

[Burnsy]

Doesn't this happen quite frequently? And not just with What.cd...

[anon]

Yes, a few other sites are using the same exploit as well.

[cinephilia]

quite unfair considering that visiting those threads doesn't necessarily make you a trader or else.

[X-Files]

and i think disabled CSS Layout can prevent this?

[anon]

and i think disabled CSS Layout can prevent this?

http://www.filesharingtalk.com/vb3/s...d.php?t=388923

Edit: wait, for some reason it's been trashed. Oh well...

[TONiC]

They do this with cheat forums aswell as Anon can tell you. IMO it just adds to their bad image of already jumping to assumptions and banning without a "fair trial".

[backie]

Hombre why didn't ya just link to the pastie you got all those links from http://pastie.org/private/p8a9bemaax6md65qqrzima much more informative. You can see that searching cheater in what.cd's forums is a major major no no.

[ca_aok]

Oh look, he can copy and paste from backie's blog. To his credit though, he didn't copy the whole article as he usually does.

See the PM ids ? Admins here can easily trace who are their hunters, as they are checking who read the messages they sent.

So when What's staff does it, it's an invasion of privacy, but when FST's staff does it it's not

Can sites do this to your privacy and still you support them? this is madness nad the defeat of all ur privacy.

There's a pretty simple solution to prevent this "invasion of privacy". Don't trade. It's funny how the slower ones have a hard time comprehending that. If you don't trade you don't need to worry about proxies, scores of usernames and emails, CSS leaks, IP matches, trader hunters, or the constant worry of being caught. It's funny how some people never learn.